Writer Quotes

Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.

When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.

If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.

I've always shot on film, but the times are changing.

I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.

I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

Who's to say where funny stops and 'too far' starts?

There's no reason to do 'ex and the City' if it's not going to be everything 'Sex and the City' is, which is vibrant emotions, comedy, drama... and also, style.

The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.

The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.

The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.

The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.

'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes.

'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.

People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.

People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.

Only two things change when you get older: the energy in your voice and the time of night you feel it's appropriate to call someone. In your 20s, people call at 2 a.m. and yell, 'Are you up?' into the answering machine. Now, someone calls after 8 p.m., and my boyfriend is like, 'Who is that? Who cou

My mom would be leaving the house and she'd say, 'Don't you pull out all of the old dresses in the attic and put on a show again!' And the door would close, and that's exactly what I'd do. The show was calling me!

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.

It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'

If I talk to a woman for more than five minutes I can tell you exactly whether she's an Aidan girl or a Mr. Big girl. Aidan girls are more interested in nurturing relationships and building a nest while Mr. Big girls are more about show and having fun.